James Gunn

Show Summary

As the show opens up, Adam talks about the wide media landscape, and how important it is for listeners of the podcast to spread the word about the show. He also rants about his morning radio tour, and discusses his recent appearance on The Talk. Later Adam takes a call from a listener looking for career advice, and goes on a tangent about autoerotic asphyxiation.

James Gunn enters the studio next, and talks with Adam about his new schoolgirl vs. zombie video game. Adam asks him about the process of writing the game, and James explains how hundreds of pages need to be written to cover every scenario. The guys then listen to a clip from Adam’s audiobook, and play a hilarious round of Made Up Movie.

Alison opens the news with the revelation that the Florida Face Eater was not on bath salts. The guys also talk about the upcoming Comedy Central Roast for Roseanne Barr, and Adam and James agree that Roseanne was in the right place at the right time for her career to take off. The gang then talks about an anti-cheating ring, which evolves into a larger conversation about how social media makes cheating nearly impossible. As the show wraps up, Adam rants about iced tea and gossipy restaurants.

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Absolutely love you Aceman but when you beak off about people not being prepared when interviewing you, there is a strong odor of hypocrisy given your track-record of how you handle many of your guests.

you’re retarded. they come his podcast knowing its bullshit time. theres no interview prep, no interview subject matter. If they have a book out Ace talks about it, or a movie out, Ace talks about it. Its not Larry King, it’s Adam Carolla. He treats his guests like a regular dude treats their guests, like a regular millionaire bullshitting a bullshitter

How do I find a podcast, I believe was from fall of 2011, where Adam does the bit where he’s the annoying strip club DJ but in this instance he keeps introducing Led Zeppelin songs but keeps getting the names wrong?

Ace, Bryan, Allison- Another great show. I just had an idea that I think is great for you guys. You guys have been doing so well with your live shows and live podcast I think it may be time to make a movie. I mean if Larry the Cable Guy and Vince Vaughn can do tour movies, why not Ace Broadcasting?

PS In know Adam doesn’t read so someone will have to read this to him.. I don’t really think Baby Doll is working hard for you. Every major money maker you’ve had over the last few years YOU came up with.

This was an inspiring podcast. If who ever your guest was has made a living being unfunny, untalented and pretty stupid. If this guy can make a living in hollywood, anyone can. I’m moving there tomorrow.

I always enjoy hearing Ace’s life advice. In this episode, he talks about the benefits of getting out of the house, walking, and listening to audiobooks. It’s simple advice, but great advice. This sort of activity always makes me feel better when I’m down.

Alison might be right about people tending to keep their hate to themselves. Adam may honestly harbor no ill will towards all the groups that he is said to offend…BUT as anyone in public relations knows – finding the untapped demographic gives you the opportunity to be crowned king and ride the wave of a movement. Does he really represent all the things his fans want him to? Not likely. Between Adam’s rants, riffs he is genuinely peeved and sometimes not at all. As much as Adam shits on “Where the Wild Things Are” he is kind of in the role of the main character(Max, who became leader of the wild things). A succinct and dark illustration of ‘be careful what you ask for’. I think Adam is fine leading an ‘angry(and arguably not-too-serious) parade’. I think there is a blurry line that is lost on people where it gets confused for the ‘hate parade’. I also think that if people can mistake what it is and fear it there are those that are also mistaken and love it.

James has been on the show three times, he and Adam know each other, so your comment really doesn’t pertain to the situation. Secondly, he’s not a video game creator. He writes and directs movies. The video game thing is out of the ordinary for him.

I was scrolling through the pictures of yesterdays podcast and literally EXACTLY as adam was saying “getting said unit into said hand of said DJ” I clicked on the picture of the dude turning the tower of Pisa into is cock. Pretty great magnet-y

“Nicest guy in the World”. People would’ve said the same thing about Ted Bundy before he got found out. The guy died of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Clearly there was a certan level of douchebaggery present.

i lost some respect for ya ace. when you were talkin about the pick-up bball game and said the guy whipped the ball at you, and you brought up the, hey im your boss. wow!!!! you are a blowhard yourself. just realized it.

Actually the story was to illustrate how easygoing and not scary Adam was when he’s a person’s boss. It was more of a comment about him as the boss than the guy throwing the ball. Like, “how easy going a boss am I that this guy feels like he can get away with this behavior?” And the answer is, so easy going that he didn’t make a big deal of it or ever say anything.

also funny to hear Adam rant about people always turning the conversation towards themselves. Pretty much every podcast the guests are under utilized while he dominates the conversation with experiences from his own life. FWIW, I love Adam and think he’s hilarious – and I can understand the need to fill airtime, but I would like to hear more from the guests.

It is funny that Adam is preaching not to lump people into a single group – but when he looks at a black. Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, etc it is ADAM that immediately lumps them into THEIR group. Which is it aceman? Also – since my comments have been censored a lot on this website -I wonder what my chances are this comment getting posted.

He makes jokes that play off stereotypes, which by their nature “lump” people into a specific set of traits. However, there’s every indication he doesn’t live his life that way. And he clearly doesn’t share your sensitivity to being “offended” when people merely say something, in jest, as opposed to actually doing something that embodies hate or truly believing in stereotypes.

He lumps people for comedy. The joke is a lot less funny if you have to tag it with, “but that’s not all black people of course, a handful of black men stand by the mother of their children and are great fathers.”

Great show. Great guest. Funny from beginning to end. I am surprised that the death of Rodney King hasn’t come up yet on the show. Especially since AC’s buddy Drew knew Rodney King well. Kinda wouldn’t mind knowing Adam’s thougts about that. Thanks Adam and crew. Keep up the good work.

Am I the only one who sees the irony in you spending 20 min talking about how narcissistic Sarah Gilbert was for talking about herself on her show when you were there to plug your book, and 5 min into James Gunn’s visit to promote *his* project, you take time out to plug your book with an audio reading by you? Just say’n.

Does anyone know who Adam is talking about, that bought it wanking off? For that matter, whatever happened to Adam’s assistant on the “Adam Carolla Project”? Because that’s who I thought of when the ACE Man said he attended the funeral of a former assistant.

First he goes off on a rant about how he’s going on The Talk, to talk about his book. And how it’s not about whats-her-name being a lesbian. Then he rants about morning DJs not being able to prep, in order to talk about his book. THEN, when Jame Gunn comes on the show, he proceeds to ask him a single question before moving on the a sound bit from his audio book. And what makes this even more egregious, is that the video game HAS interesting dialog. It would do his guest a service to play a clip from the game instead. Which can easily be obtained from it’s many trailers, and previews on youtube.

I’m so disappointed. Adam’s behavior is far more narcissistic than anything he described in this episode.

Really thought James Gunn ruined made up movie. He brought in a lot of negative kind of stuff. Really not a fan of James Gunn, I think everyone who is a guest on the shows knows what they are walking into. Big Fan of the show, adam, and the gang.

Time for a hiatus. Had the day off and listened to 7:59 minutes of books-on-tape goodness. There was a story about the worst day of Aceman’s life, the worst two days of Aceman’s life and then worst week of Aceman’s life. All different, hours apart and totally unrelated. Oh, and did anyone know how rich the Aceman is? Then why keep reminding people that you aren’t really reading the book, yet you need 30,000 to 50,000 people to buy it and that they should go buy it for everything someone else wrote for you?

Another annoying thing about the audio book is Adam says things like
“you will read more about that later”
It is an AUDIO book, so you will ‘hear’ things, not ‘read’ them.
Surely he could have easily said ‘hear’ instead of ‘read’ when recording it.

This is a comedy podcast…reading 75% of these posts, freaking pathetic. Complain to your fucking therapist. You love Adam or you don’t, get off the high horse you think you rode in on and come down to earth. Get a fucking life and take your negativity elsewhere. When you make a million bucks then feel free to critique, until then keep to your fuckin self on your bug infested couch or floor you dumb retarded bums.

Hey guys! New”s flash, Adam’s a hypocrite. Any one who takes him to task for the things he says would be pretty successful. But I can respect the fact that the guy does 90 minutes a day and 500k people listen to him so after a while you run out of things to say and say some pretty stupid shit.